MUSICAL PROJECTS

Adduce

Lars Graugaardand Juan Cristóbal Saavedra met in Barcelona in 2008, and they soon began performing together after a couple of informal jam sessions. The initial results were so satisfactory that they decided to continue giving concerts, and also produce their first album under the name ‘ADDUCE’. Work on the album – entitled «ADD» [pn057] – started in september 2009. In november 2013 Adduce released his second album «ADD+» [pn085] under Pueblo Nuevo Netlabel.

Angel Negro

EDUCATION

In the field of teaching, Saavedra has taught courses in computer music in cultural centers such as Convent de Sant Agustí, Les Basses, Capsa or Casa Sagnier as in the Escola de Música de Terrassa, Escola de Música de Manresa, Niu Espai Artístic Contemporari orAbleton User Group Barcelona. In Brazil, Saavedra has taught workshops in Ateliê Aberto (Campinas), Cromática (Pouso Alegre) and FIIM – Festival Internacional de Inovação Multimidia (Brasilia).

A Domestika Basics of «Introduction to Ableton Live» is currently available in Spanish with Portuguese and English subtitles.

ABOUT

Juan Cristóbal Saavedra aka Equipo was born 1974 in Santiago de Chile. In 1998 he produced his first solo record of experimental music under the name of Pikap and in 1999 he started working on his electronic music project under the Equipo alias. At the beginning of 2001 he moved to Berlin where he was resident DJ at the legendary Berliner club Tacheles and composed the tracks for his first album on the Fueradeserie! label named (…e.q.u.i.p.o…), before moving to Barcelona in 2004.

In Barcelona he continued his work as Equipo, but also found time to set up the artistic collective Dpendiente, where develop further musical projects. Late 2006 he published the EP Presente and a year later Usted No Está Aquí on the Chilean Netlabel Pueblo Nuevo. In 2008 Equipo published the EPs Al Norte Por el Interior and Cruce de Brisas on the French Netlabel Rodoid.

After being involved in several musical projects like Adduce with Lars Graugaard in parallel to a continued work in other areas such as cinema, theatre, contemporary dance and visual arts, Equipo joined Clang in 2013 and published Adjetivos, followed by Tacto e Indiscreción (2014), Simulaciones (2015), Simulaciones Revisited (2015) and Fin de existencias (2017).

Equipo has a very personal vision of dance music: abstract yet concrete. Matured in the course of 20 years, he creates a combination of House, Techno, Electro, Dub, Minimal and IDM that display playful rhythmic patterns, subtle melodies and evocative harmonies.

Besides his extensive experience in live shows presented at events and clubs around the world, Equipo has performed at renown festivals like Mutek, Bam, Caudorella, Escena Poblenou (Barcelona), Deleste (Valencia), Cologne Commons (Cologne) and Re-New (Copenhagen).